JVC issues Everio GZ-HM400 Full HD camcorder in Japan

Lookie here -- time for yet another HD camcorder in the quickly expanding Everio family. Launched today in the Land of the Rising Sun, the JVC Everio GZ-HM400 is a Full HD shooter with a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, 2.8-inch flip-out LCD, 32GB of built-in storage, an SD / SDHC expansion slot, HDMI output, a 10x optical zoom and a fairly preposterous (in a good way) 600fps slo-mo mode, just like that ultra-sleek GZ-X900 we peeked back in March. The unit can also snap 9 megapixel still shots and hold nearly three hours of Full HD content before needing a USB-led cleansing. Indeed, this here camcorder mimics the aforesaid GZ-X900 in pretty much every way save for design, and it's expected on Japanese store shelves early next month for ¥110,000 ($1,157).

[Via Akihabara News]

Read - JVC press release
Read - Hands-on shots

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:52PM]

Darren I'm going to kick you in the nuts for proliferation of the term "Full HD". Just say the resolution last time I checked there where higher resolutions then 1920x1080 or in this case 1440x1080.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 11:29PM]

Maybe you just weren't very clear in your message and I misunderstood.

Here's a review of the US version of this camera--> http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/JVC-Everio-GZ-X900-First-Impressions-Camcorder-Review-36271.htm

The X900 version has 1920 X 1080 and it seems unlikely that the newer Japanese version doesn't support that.

Also the Article he linked to says it's their latest "Full HD" camera, so it sounds like that's an industry term.

[glennS Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:42PM]

It is price competitive with the Canon HF-S100/HF-S10. All things considered, I would probably go with the Canon in this case. But JVC makes pretty nice camcorders too. I'd like to see a side-by-side comparison.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 7:12PM]

Nice one, how about in UK ?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 15th 2009 7:05AM]

I wish a company would come out with a card-based HDMI input video switcher. I know that Black Magic makes a VERY rudimentary one, but I'm talking about a hub with 3-4 HDMI inputs on it, with some software that can live-switch between them. This would be very powerful, in that 3-4 HD camcorders with HDMI-out ($2500 total), a nice wireless mic set ($600), and a decent computer ($1500) could be combined to make a full live-production, HD studio, for less than $5,000. This would be absolutely unheard of even a decade ago.

So...yeah. Someone invent that. You'll make a lot of money.

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